(iPoster) Guilt in Conflict Resolution

• In Event: Poster Session: Political Psychology I & II
  In Poster Session: Poster Session: Political Psychology II

Abstract

I suggest a self (inward looking) and other-regarding (outward looking) route to admitting guilt when one or one’s group has harmed members of another group. First, I find people come to admit higher levels of guilt for either their own behavior or their ingroup members’ actions after they were replenished of the worthiness of their own national identity. This effect is inward looking in that it does not entail specific comparison with or view of an outgroup. I also find a way to view others, an outward looking effect, that increases admitted guilt. That is, people who perceive of other groups in general as being malleable rather than fixed in nature acknowledge more guilt. I discuss these findings from a survey experiment conducted with a nationally representative sample of 1,593 Japanese people.

Author

• Eunbin Chung, University of Utah